荒土

I

あらつち【粗土･荒土】

coarse soil; soil used for giving a wall a rough undercoat of plaster.

II

こうど【荒土】

arid [barren, infertile] land; (a) wasteland; a waste.

●(土地が)荒土と化す become barren; lose 《its》 fertility; become a wasteland.